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GMTCanned Star Trek data and other feedback We sort of intentionally decided to break things up into some chapters against one data set (TMDB) and others against different kinds of problems (ch 4 and 9 come to mind) so readers could see a variety of problems being solved. Interestingly our feedback ranged from "do something different each chapter" to "make a single application throughout the book" so we sort of took a middle path. It's actually really hard to stay with one data set and do everything you'd like with it.

Sorry installing the iPython notebooks was difficult. It was a tool we found conducive to writing, as we could write in iPython notebook with executable examples. So that's why we went that route. Many readers have said they love it as they can play with the examples. But I realize it does add some burden for folks not used to iPython notebook.

Anyway, thanks for the good stuff for 2nd edition. We'll definitely keep your feedback in mind should they convince us to write a second edition :)]]>https://forums.manning.com/posts/preList/38713/108254.pagehttps://forums.manning.com/posts/preList/38713/108254.page
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GMTturning off norms vs turning off scoring on page 104 Thanks for the input!]]>https://forums.manning.com/posts/preList/36271/101337.pagehttps://forums.manning.com/posts/preList/36271/101337.page
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GMTAny other similar sources to read whilst waiting for the rest of the book? I would definitely encourage you to read Introduction to Information Retrieval
http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/

Its the kind of book you'd read if you were going to *build* a search engine :) It's a very good CS textbook, and won't be nearly as applied as this book. However, it's one of those books that can give you a lot of aha moments about the algorithms.
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Thanks Doug. I have watched the videos from Manning and Dan Jurafsky's Stanford Natural Language Processing course. I was mostly able to follow Manning's videos, whereas much of the time Jurafsky's assumed to much knowledge for this non-computer scientist to keep up (which is obviously not a criticism given the intended audience). It would be interesting exercise to revisit them after reading your completed book.

Hopefully the IR textbook will be written and structured in a way that I can follow enough of it to recognise the aha moments.
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Also do keep a continued eye out on the OpenSource Connections blog, I'm sure as ideas come to me while writing I'll be blogging as well:
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Yep, I've already got an alert set up for any updates. It's perfectly pitched to my level of understanding. (Obviously I don't want to be able to build a search engine from scratch, but a better understanding of how Solr is does its magic will help me immeasurably when we're trying to optimise our database and search results).]]>https://forums.manning.com/posts/preList/35895/100477.pagehttps://forums.manning.com/posts/preList/35895/100477.page
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